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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
A New Marerwax Route.

A plan has been matured by Chicago
man to connect the Illinois river and
Lake Michigan by canal Of such capac-
ity as to allow the passage of the Missis-
sippi steamboats,, gunboats, and war ves>
sells from the Mississippi to the lakes.
There is, the party claims, natural route
for this national waterway. 1t is known
as the Sag region, extending from the val
ley of the Despaines to Blue Island,
through which the Calumet feeder was
located. From Bile Island the route
would be down the Calumet river TO the
mouth, distance of sixteen miles. This
proposition is made in the interest of
Chicago. If this route should I've select
ed in less than five years he says that Mis-
sissippi river steamers will be seen in
Chicago.
The Hennepin canal viii do away with
the necessity of such IL step. Chicago is
a great city, but the northwest Is great
country, and though the hostility which
has been developed III Chicago toward
the canal SO recently may be the out
come of the new proposition, the pros
posed Hennepin route did not originate
in Chicsgo's interest alone, it having been
brought about in consideration Of the
entire northwest Let us dispose of
pending questions. before we unde, take
projects
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

Hall@ck'S orders to Curtis had been TO keep
the enemy south of Boston mountains But
small detachments of his troops had been left
is guards here and there along the route. as
he followed after Price till his army had be
come stretched out very thin. They had
marched into Arkansas travelling at thu rate
Of twenty miles q dav, an extraordinary
march under the circumstances. Curtis
force was much smaller than the Reinforced
Confederate army. Curtis therefore fell back
north from the neighborhood Of Boston
mountains and took position nearer to Mis-
souri, at Bentonville. He had retreated from
Fayetteville Van Dorm followed and the
Confederate army became in turn the puusuer
Curtis resolved to dispose his forces about
Sugar creek. near Bentonville and await the
battle which he saw must come.
Until he reached Sugar creek however, he
was not aware of Van Dorn's arrival in the
Confederate camp 1t made things look
sbaEy for his little army. p 900 aga INST Z. 900.
but Curtis did not weaken 1t was too late
to run, if he had wanted to
The reader will see from the map the diSpo-
-tiOn of the forces on each side Sugar creek
ilOws first westward through mountain de-
ILL, then northward, skirting clump of
mountains The westerly portion If the
clgnp Is called Pea Ridge Thence tbs battls
gets its name u Is also sometimes called the
tattie Of Elktorn tavern. from house i'll
the eastern pert of the mountain group
In the map the black, broken lines 10 the
nofthward indicate the Confederate troops,
the open ones a little south of them the
redeIais BY q SEiIlful movement Van
Dorm had fanked Curtis on the night of
March and gained his rear. This threatened
to cat off Curtis communication with Spring
field, do, and his supplies. The aspect was
back enough
Gen Franz Sigel distinguished himself hon
orably in u si.irmish on March g. His camp
was tie most westerly of Curtis' forces, being
mar Bentonville, which appears on the map.
Van Dorm passed through that town on his
way northward to get in Curtis rear. By
sflllfully covering his right flank with cav
airy movement Sigel managed to get of with
his whole supply train and convey it to Sugar
creek. About 800 men and five pieces of light
artillery were behind at Bentonville, and in
moment they were surrounded with Confed-
crate cavalry and infantry Sigel himself
was fortunately with them, however, having
sta'd with the rear guard He handled the
brave 6Wl so skillfully, now fighting, now re-
treating, always nearer to Curtis and Pea
Ridge. that he managed to bring them nearly
all Off in safety, over distance of ten miles
Sigei is now United States pension agent Mt
New York
Curtiss front was to the south, from which
direction he expected the enemy to come
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

help saying he could hold out no longer.
Again there was no assistance "Persevere, y
said the commanding general He did so,
till fourth of his men lay dead, dying and
wounded upon the field. When the left and
center were safe, and Asboth. Gen. Curtis
and later Sigel himself, pressed TO Cars aid,
they found him fighting on still, with shat
tered army, and the ground for mile strewn
with his dead and wounded.
The fighting was renewed holly as ever for
a time and Asboth was wounded. Then
night fell. and both armies bivouacked upon
the field, with the dead and diving all about
them
In the morning of March S, there was more
fighting around ElkhOrn tavern. The force
Of both armies was concentrated there
SigCls men with several heavy batteries bore
the bruDt Of it. Gen. Davis opened a cross
fire on the Confederate left. Cannon thunder
and iron hail filed the air with terror, Till at
last the ConfetlerateS could endure il 10
longer Their batteries were planted upon
the hills OF Pea RIDGE. They turned To n.y.
and Sigels men were dISlIing up the bills
after them. II was a picturesque sight
Curtis says in his report:
"1he upward movement of the Gallant
Thirty sixth Illinois, with its dark blue line
OF men and It's cleaning bayOnetS, steadily
rose from base to summit where it dashed
forward, driving aud scattering the enemy
from these commanding heights"
So ended the battle of Pea Ridge 1t was
NOT a victory for either side but it ended the
fighting in that part OF Arkansas and Mis-
souri, 1t WIS fought in a corner near the
border line of three states, Missouri, Arkan-
SIS, Kansas and the Indian Territory Van
Dorm cncamped with his men eight miles
from the battle field, and buried his dead I'M
der flag uf truce Then he went his way
south Of Boston mountains, getting off
with nearly all his baggage. The loss on
each side was about 1000 Both armies had
had enough of fighting for a time Curtis
eucamped al keitsville to rest and care for
hi men
Pixies Indians tomahawked their fallen foes
ani scaiped and mutilated them A Confed-
crate officer, in a letter to The Richmond
Wing. declared that he saw the Texans doing
the same thing. On tho other hand, Van
Dorm charged that some of Sigel's men muir
dered several prisoners of war in cold blood
J must ." remembered that Pea Ridge was =
specIr'yu horde, warfare
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

is great set Of rogues about Keitsvile and
hope you will find and arrest and send back
the most of them Another of Curtis orders
is very strict in regard to protection Of pri-
yate property. He will not permit houses to
be entered, unless for spies, arms or soldiers.
Restrain your troops from acts Of cruelty
and folly" he directs Col Wright
Gen Price wintered at Springfield, getting
recruits and supplies February IL, Curtis
began his march against Price, As he APP
preached, Price retreated south. and finally
went over the border into Arkansas. He
campad at a place called Gross HoliOws.
Curtis cavalry followed in close pursuit.
Price retrretef! hastily, leaving a number of
sick atl a considerable amount of commits
sary stores behind him He burned his bar
racks at Gross HollGws.
Near this place occurred one Of those out
RACES of the war which all must regret now
Some of Prices provisions were left at ham
let called Mud Town Some Confederate
officers, before they abandoned these, seat
tered poison over them Federal officers and
men following on found the provisions ate
of them and sickened and died Who per
pctrated the act has never been exactly ascer-
tanned But it shows what warfare in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas meant in those days.
Price continued retreating till he came TO
Boston mountains Look on the map and
you viii see a spur of the Ozark range ex
tending into The northwest corner of Arkan-
sas about fifty miles south Of the border.
This is the Boston mountains, IA stretch of
ills 900 feet high
Gen. Earl Van Dorm had been recently an
I,nnl!el to tho command of tho ConfaJsrate
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07


[Frctn Lossing's Civil War taws, Comanche~
in America. = and Cltrrokees
Chief John Ross, of the Cherokee nation OF
posed him, but at length yielded 10 the inpor-
tupities of the tribe. and struck bargain
with the Confederate agent. Pike was the
regularly accredited commissioner OF the
Confederate States of America to the Indians
He promised TO pay to the red men the annu-
tiles they had heretofore received from the
United States. He also promised TO take the
southern part of the Indian territory under
Confederate protection. This included the
country of the Choctaws and ChickaSavs
Pixies design was to secure in time the whol.
Indian territory to the Confederacv
The Indians raised force OF 5000 Iaan for
the war. Jefferson Davis had authoriaai
Pike TO enlist three regiments. The Indian
agreement was ratified mt mass meeting ar
Tahlequah. the Cherokee capital II was
signed by John Ross. Principal Chief Of the
Cherokee Nation" It was secretly against
his will, however. His wife, Young, we'll
educated woman, was 50 opposed to it thar
she drove Oft the men who tried to raise a
Confederate flag over her house. and they
had 10 give up the attempt This was tn
last of August, 1861 John Ross was nearly
white, having only one-eighth Indian blood
He was a man fit for a great leader any
where He had cast his lot with his Indian
brethren, although his appearance gave ne
sign of the duskv blood III his veins For
more than forty years he had acted as the
Moses who led his tribe from barharisrn t.
civilization He escaped north with his fam
ily in the summer of IStl2
Ross Indians, however with those o.
other tribes joined the Confederate army
Under Albert Pike. who was made Il bfi4H-
der general
In December, 1861, the Confederate general.
Sterling Price who had advanced again INTO
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

From Lossing's Civil War reached camp at
in America. Boston mountains
March 2 1862 A salute of forty guns was
fired to welcome him, and he addressed the
troops. He issued proclamation to this
effect:
Soldiers, behold your leader! He comes
to show YOU the way to glory and immortal
renown. He comes to hurl back the minions
of the despots at Washington whose ignor
ance, RIGHTEOUSNESS and brutality are equalcd
only by their craven natures. : The
fiag of our country is waving on the southern
borders OF Missouri, planted there by my
hands, under authority from our chief magis
trate Shall it wave there iii melan-
choly loneliness, as u fall leaf in our primeval
forests, or shall its beautiful field and bright
stars haunt in the breeze over the bright bat
talions ri Arkansas, of Texas and Of Louis
ana, rs they are marShaling to do battle with
Missouri for victory, for honor and for indie
raIdenc9, Awake. young men of Arkansas,
and ARM Beautiful maidens Of Louisiana
smile not on the craven youth who may lin
ger hr your hearth when the rude blast OF
war is sounding IN Your ears, Texas chiv
airy. to ANS"
Price h,i not retreated TO Boston mountains
because ~ did not mean TO fight. He wished
10 gain time for reinforcement, and also Il
favorable position for battle He was Joined
10y Cen McCoioch and by Albert Pike with his
Indians On the morning of March !, Gen
Van Dorm moved forward at the head of
about 23.0aD troops, under Gems Price. Nc
CuIioeh. Mcintosh and Pike
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

GEN. PRICE, c. 5. A would follow hi,
proclamation He was doomed TO disappoinf
n.ert, III a great measure.
About 5000 Missourians Joined his stand-
md but no more
Meantime Nov 1, 1861, Mcclellan had
been appointed commander chief Of all tin
armies. and there had been a shaking I'D Of
generals and Il new deal all around Fremont
vas removed from the department Of the
Missouri and the command given to HaIleck
Fremont had once driven Price out OF Mis-
souri, INTO Arkansas. But on Fremont, re
tirement Price Immediately returned to the
old ground and issued the lively proclama
tiOn.
As soon as he could get squared about in his
new seatsat st. Louis Haleck sent Brig Gen
Samuel r. Curtis after Price with an army
which finally, including the re-enf5rcements
added from time to time, amounted to 70
0tl5 men Curtis was an Ohio man, West
Point graduate, and he had been a colonel III
the Mexican war. He had been a congress
man from Iowa. and lived in that state when
the civil war broke out.
An instructive part of war history is got
from reading the correspondence and the re-
ports i'll the government archives. Nearly
all the generals in the field constantly beg the
department commanders for re-enforcements,
and are answered that re-enforcements are
being forwarded as fast as possible.
In Halleck's instruction to Curtis he con
stantly urges the latter to keep his men to-
gether, and not let the enemy fight him in
detail. Throw out your cavalry carefully"
says Halleck, "like fingers to the hand, so that
they eau bo drawn in on the main body"
Curtis, in enc of his letters, declares that he
must have cavalry horses, 400 new sets of ar
tillcry harness and 10000 pairs of pants. "
Halleck answers back that pants will be
sent, bat he cannot spare any horses.
Miss 1uri and Arkansas were the scene of
the most desperate guerrilla fighting of the
war, and this fact is also reflected in Curtis
letters He tells Col. Clark Wright: There
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
LOCAL NOTICES.

Go TO the city mills for your -four. buck.
wheat, rye -four, rye meal. graham, corr
meal, ground fresh every day. Streckfus
IL Schaab.
Insure in the Boylston Insurance Co. of
Boston. Mass. organized 1872. Assets
nearly 81 100000. Peasants & Hurst,
agents. Office over Rock Island National
Bank
Stop and figure what 80 pounds of oats
and so pounds of shelled corn cost, then
see what the city mills sell 100 pounds
of chop feed for. Streckfus & Schaab.
VIM. McEniry,
Attorney at law, loans money on good
security, makes collections. Reference,
Mitchell & Lynde, bankers. Office in
post Office block
The taxes for 1885 are now due. Office
in the court house.
GEO. E. LAMBERT, Collector.
Barth & Babcock, Dentists.
No. 1924 Second avenue. Special atten-
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
Inserting teeth without plates.
Coal, Potatoes, Etc.
For coal, leave orders at Wheelan Bros.
grocery, or at 1903 Second avenue. For
onions and potatoes. apply under May
Bros. old stand, Second avenue.
JOHN WARNER.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

Many people who have accumulated
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this2 Then call on me at my Office in
the ARGUS block. SAvILE JOHNSTON.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
THE Fight At PEA RIDGE.
Sketch of the Most Uneivilized
Battle of the Civil War.
INDIANS TAKE A HAND.
The Authorities Have Not Decided TO
This Day Which Whipped.

Federal and Confederate Armies Fight
Two DAYS and Then Withdrav-Por-
traits of the Leaders on Both Sides.
Albert Pixies Indians Use TcmahawEs
and Scalping Knives-Gen. Van Dorn's
ProcIamat;on-A Fierce Battle Whose
Story Has Not Been Fully Written.
The battle of Pea Ridge was fought Fri
day and Saturday March and S, 1862 The
dead were buried on Sunday If the fight
had taken place east of the Mississippi it would
have taken a prominent place in history
But it was fought in the northwestern corner
of Arkansas. Railroads had scarcely pene-
trated into that region yet, and telegraphs
We're mysterious things which good many
people did not even believe in Therefore
the full history of Pea Ridge has never heyn
written. Yet that fight is entitled to enc
unhappy distinction: 1t was the most baihar-
Gus battle of the civil war
During the first years of the war, the south
had better generals than the north. As early
us the summer of 1861, the Confederacv sent
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

Curtis battle line extended east and west
across Pea Ridge between three and four
miles from Sugar creek to Elkhorn tavern.
With this hastily changed Federal front, the
two armies faced each other like this:
Confederates on the north, Federals on the
south:
Mccullough, Mcintosh, Price.
Gross Timber Hollow.
Sigel, Asboth, Davis. Carr
The names are those Of Van Dorns and
Curtis division commanders. Gen. Alexander
Asboth had charge of Curtis cavalry and
artillery. Cross Timber Hollow was deep
and difficult ravine covered with fallen trees
between the two armies. Through this hollow
they had to reach each other
Col. Osterhaus, of Chicago, opened the
fight by an attack on Van Dorn's center
at 1870 in the morning, March Z. Just as he
commenced this movement word was hastily
brought to Curtis that his pickets had been
driven in.
So the battle was begun, Soon there was
tremendous fighting. The woods swarTned
with ConfederateS, who seemed to spring from
the ground Cars division, on the extreme
right, had been heavily attacked, and Oster-
Gen Davis to the relief of Carr on the right,
but Osterhaus' men came flying back upon
the center. The order to Davis was counter
nanded, and he was told to stay and help
Osterhaus He quickly changed his line of
march under fire. Very shortly Gen Davis
found himself and Osterhaus fighting McCul-
loch, Mcintosh, Pike and all Pixies Indians,
with the poet and John Ross at the head Of
them Back he and Osterhaus wavered, and
then gathered strength and advanced again.
They swayed back and forth in a storm Of
shot. All at once the Eighteenth Indiana
came sweeping down upon the flank and rear
of the Confederate center with ball and
bayonet 1t settled the fortune of the day
then. The confederates broke and fed
Both Gems McCulloch and Mcintosh fell
mortaly wounded. Their forces tried TO re
FORM but Sigel came up with two batteries
of heavy artillery and it was all over.
Then Sigel moved over to the Federal right
TO help Carr That day Carr had fought
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
isnahi..

The North American RsOte,o for
March contains the following interesting
contents:
Some Interrogation Points, Robert G.
Ingersoll; Why am | Baptist? Rev
Thomas Armitage, d. D L. L. D.;
Drury's Bluff and Petersburg Gen &.
T. Beauregard; Our King in Dress Coat,
Morcure D Conway; \ Letter on Prayer,
The Duke Of Argyll: Modern Feudalism,
James F. Hudson; Some Unpublished
War Letters addressed 10 Gen Sherman;
Our Inequalities of Suffrage J Chester
Lyman; Constitutional Reform in New
York. Col George Bliss, \ Rejoinder TO
Gen. Beauregard Rear Admjral Taylor,
Working Women. Ida VI Van Etien.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

STATE OF ILLINOIS
Rock ls and County.
In the County Cont, to the March Term, A. D..
1887.
To all persons concerned: Public noticeis here
by given that the undersigned, guardian of Nellie
4. swecker and Arthur B. Swecker, minor child
rep Of California Nevada SweckCr deceased. has
fled in the Office Of the clerk OF the county court
of Rock Island county and state Of Illinois pc
tition for an order for the sale of the following
described real estate belonging to said minors,
situate, lying and being in the county of Rock
Island and state Of Illinois. and described fol
lows. to-wit: The undivided one-eighth Il 81 Of
the north one hundred 900 acres Of the north
west quarter ts) OF section fourteen "a, in
township sixteen tl6l, ranGe Eve (5l west, and
that said petition will be heard on the first day of
the said March term. A d 1887, to be begun on
the Second Monday OF March, A. D., 1887, or as
soon thereafter as counsel may be heard At which
time and place you can appear and object to said
petition II you see fit so TO do.
Dated February 10Th 1887.
CHARLES H. STODDARD.
Gnirdian of Nellie L. Swecker and Arthur b.
Swecksr, minors.
SWEENEY & WALKER, sol'rs for Petitioner.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.

Estate Of Charles VIM. Manglesdoh, deceased
The undersigned. having been appointed admin.
stratrix of the estate Of Charles WIN. Mangles-
dorf, late OF the county Of Rock Island, state Of
Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice that she
will appear before the county court of Rock Island
county at the office of the clerk of said court in
the city OF Rock Island, at the March term on the
Second Monday in March next, at which time all
persons having claims against said estate arc no
tiled and requested to attend for the purpose of
having the came adjusted. All persons indebted
10 said estate are requested to make immediate
payment TO the undersigned.
Dated this 21st day Of January A. D., 1857.
FRANC S MANGLESDORF,
jan-2. -d4w Administrative.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07
A ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.


The undersigned having been appointed admin
the county of Rock Island state OF lllinois
deceased, hereby gives notice that he will ap-
pear before the county court Of Rock Island
county. AZ the office Of the clerk of said court,
in the city of Rock Island, at the March term
on the Second Monday in March next, at which
time all persons having claims against sad Is
tate are notified and requested TO attend for the
purpose of having the same adjusted. Al persons
indebted to said estate are requested TO make i'm
mediate payment TO the undersigned.
Dated this 26th day OF January. A. D.. 1887.
CHARLES c. CARTER,
ian. 21 DIV Administrator
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-07

Editor Argus
Rock ISLAND. March In the ARGUS
of Saturday appeared letter questioning
the ACCESSIBILITY, from an economic stand
point, of appeal in the Huesing injunc>
ton case. The writer is so respectful and
moderate that statement of facts 10 the
case will convince him that the action Of
the lawyers in advising an appeal, and of
the mayor ia 50 ordering, is the best in
an economic sense that can be done. If no
appeal is taken The city will lose the
$4,000 or $4,000 expended upon the
abattoir also 81, 5t0 law gcrs' fees and
$500 or S400 court costs. The appeal
will add $500 OF $500 to the total ex-
pense in ease the city loses, but if a fa>
vorable decision he rendered IS, 600 or
So, 900 will be saved Ii vii. certainly be
worth the extra expense to have Judi
cial decision defining the powers of the
city in regard to regulating such business.
CITIZEN.